ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,639, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AMG LITHIUM GMBH (Frankfurt, Germany).

"Process for preparing lithium salts such as anhydrous lithium hydroxide and anhydrous lithium halides" was invented by Vera Nickel (Haiger, Germany), Hannes Vitze (Idstein, Germany), Christine Gabbey (Marburg, Germany), Stefanie Riehl (Rodermark, Germany), Stefan Scherer (Griesheim, Germany), Martin Janssen (Nauheim, Germany) and Rebecca Spielau (Eppstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for producing lithium salts, such as lithium hydroxide and lithium halides, wherein the lithium salts obtained are substa...